One of the biggest critiques I hear in poetry workshops is that the poem’s true beginning is later into the draft, that the poem takes a shift halfway through the page that really digs in a clear direction, the magic dust picks up and swirls the material that laid out latent before the reader. The work transitions from idle thought into a work of art. O…
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